做
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In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
To do (a task, a job); to make (a thing). One verb covers both: 做饭 'to cook' (literally 'make a meal'), 做作业 'do homework'. 你做什么工作? asks what work someone does.
Làm: làm một việc, hoặc làm ra một thứ gì. 做饭 là nấu cơm, 做作业 là làm bài tập. Hỏi nghề nghiệp thì nói 你做什么工作？ (bạn làm nghề gì?).
VerbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “做” mean?
To do (a task, a job); to make (a thing). One verb covers both: 做饭 'to cook' (literally 'make a meal'), 做作业 'do homework'. 你做什么工作? asks what work someone does.
Is “做” formal or informal?
做 is generally neutral.